Who would have ever guessed that…?

𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖 𝙛𝙚𝙬 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙛 𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙨

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-05-14/deactivating-facebook-for-just-a-few-weeks-reduces-belief-in-fake-news.html

#facebook #social #media #SocialMedia #fake #news #FakeNews #disinformation #meta

Deactivating Facebook for just a few weeks reduces belief in fake news

The largest study ever carried out on social media deactivation has found that disconnecting lowers users political participation and also their propensity to believe misinformation

^{Jordi Pérez Colomé (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

"Like the leaders of those countries, the American MAGA right also wants Americans to believe that their democracy is degenerate, their elections illegitimate, their civilization dying. The MAGA movement’s leaders also have an interest in pumping nihilism and cynicism into the brains of their fellow citizens, and in convincing them that nothing they see is true."

#Trump #maga #authoritarianism #democracy #Russia #Putin #China #disinformation
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"Here is a difficult truth: A part of the American political spectrum is not merely a passive recipient of the combined authoritarian narratives that come from Russia, China, and their ilk, but an active participant in creating and spreading them."

~ Anne Applebaum

#Trump #maga #authoritarianism #democracy #Russia #Putin #China #disinformation
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https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/the-new-propaganda

The New Propaganda

How authoritarians work together to change our conversation

^{Anne Applebaum (Open Letters)}